At Fitzgerald’s Fine Catering, our goal is to generate an extraordinary experience for your family and guests. Whether it’s a corporate event for 50 guests or a seated wedding dinner for over 500, our Connecticut wedding catering team brings together all of the elements to produce a successful event. Whether are already in the process of performing your wedding preparations, or you are simply not even sure where to begin, if you are tying the knot this year, Fitzgerald’s can work with you to create a wedding day that will create beautiful memories to last a lifetime. We have put together a list of popular wedding trends of 2015, which we hope will assist you and provide direction in planning your big day!
A growing trend in the year of 2015 is adding a more personalized experience to the wedding invitation process, which include:
Utilizing social media. You can set up a social media account that is dedicated to your wedding day and invite your guests to like or follow the page. This way, they can share with you the voyage from pre-wedding preparations, to post-wedding reminiscencing.
Request shared photos from your guests. You can ask your guests to bring with them a photo of a time that you shared together to be displayed at the wedding reception.
Rustic wedding invitation cards. A popular trend for many wedding invitations are cards that are influenced by watercolors and pastel hues, that are light brown and green colored. The invitations can be cut into into unique contours and poster styles, are other ideas to contemplate if you’re looking to construct a very original wedding invitation.
Gluten free menu options
Gluten-free menu options has been steadily gaining popularity for Connecticut weddings over the recent years. Because of the growing popularity, our clients have been increasingly requesting that ingredients such as wheat, barley, rye are left off the menu. These replacement gluten free grains are more nutritious than wheat-based flours and will satisfy the growing health conscience population of guests at your party.
Connecticut Wedding Reception Venues
The natural aesthetics of your Connecticut wedding reception venue is a very important trend for weddings in 2015. Nothing embodies this trend more than natural settings full of ocean or professionally landscaped lawns. You will have no issues with impressing your guests at any of the following Connecticut wedding venues with their striking backdrops and scenery.
Lighthouse Point – New Haven, Connecticut: Lighthouse Point in New Haven is widely known for its beautiful location on the Long Island Sound and providing soothing sea breezes as well as breathtaking ocean views. It is considered a historical building and will provide plenty of space for your wedding reception. The property also includes a historic lighthouse, beaches, and a unique carousel which was built in 1916 and restored to its current state of magnificence in the 1980′s.
Gallaher Mansion at Cranbury Park – Norwalk, Connecticut: The Gallaher Mansion was built in 1930 by the acclaimed industrialist Edward Beach Gallaher. The spacious mansion has many details throughout its interior including custom woodworking, stained glassed windows, and walnut veneer paneling, which seamlessly extends from the wall to the ceiling. There is an extended garden terrace and flourishing garden that creates a beautiful natural atmosphere for entertaining outdoor guests
Waveny House – New Canaan, Connecticut: The Waveny house the perfect venue to host your wedding reception. Waveny House is a beautiful Tudor style mansion that is located within the serene and expansive Waveny Town Park and is managed by the New Canaan Recreation Department. The mansion was originally built in 1912 and is composed of a grand hall, library, sitting room, dining room, breakfast room, billiard room, large commercial kitchen, and an extensive patio, which provides a perfect view of the magnificent park.
Fitzgerald’s Fine Catering of Black Rock, Connecticut performs catering services for Weddings, Corporate Events, Private Party, Birthday, Bar/Batmitzvah, Holiday, BBQ/Picnic, Brunch, Showers, Memorials Fund Raiser, Clam Bake, Our service area includes the following towns in Connecticut and surrounding areas; Fairfield, Southport, Westport, East Norwalk, South Norwalk, Darien, Greenwich, Ridgefield, New Canaan, Bridgeport, Easton, Weston, Trumbull, Monroe, Danbury, Brookfield, New Haven, Hartford, New London, Madison, Middletown and beyond!